In Scorn of The Day Job

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Mangled, work smashed into my life like a car crash.

Back out - even the most trivial work is above you.

Career ladders have wrung hope from too many great dreamers.

The media lie: work merely a means of purchase power.

Your own work as work, the enduring dream, always toppled.

Never poke your valuable head above the high-flier’s desperate parapet.

Those seemingly insurmountable hurdles, frustrations and anxieties. Pointless. Well mostly.

Misery spawned in doing what you hate for so long.

Never let work become a part of who you are.

Because, in the end, your colleagues are never true friends.

1. Hackney Road, London. 2008. Nikon fm2

2. Sydenham, London. 2008. Nikon fm2

3. Kilburn, London. 2007. Nikon fm2

4. Forest Hill, London. 2008. Nikon f801

5. Liverpool Street, London. 2008. Nikon fm2

6. Sydenham, London. 2007. Pentax ME super

7. Dulwich, London. 2007. Nikon fm2

8. Great Eastern Street, London. 2007. Canon QL-17

9. Regent Street, London. 2007. Nikon fm2

10. Penge, London. 2008. Nikon fm2

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The whole ‘Men at Work’ series ( all 100 of them! ) can be seen on my website: www.100realpeople.co.uk

P.S. I know, not everyone hates their job and I don’t really hate mine, it’s just I do wonder what I could achieve were I to have the time I spent working as my own time - I’m sure I’m not alone?

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